JDK 11: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/ws/handler/soap/SOAPHandler

Question

We are migrating to openjdk 11 from jdk 8. Some of our projects that uses soap to call third party apis are failing with error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: j         


        

Answer 1

The javax APIs were transitioned to Jakarta, so in 2020 the proper dependency is the following:

    jakarta.xml.ws
    jakarta.xml.ws-api
    2.3.3

Here's an article summarizing what happened: Java Magazine - Transition from Java EE to Jakarta EE

And here's a very useful table with mappings between the old artifacts and the new one.